Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

I'm a new member - but I'm assuming the post in question came from the Vince? Wow. I'm sure glad Bernie decided to add him to the band...

People with a better memory can correct me on any erroneous details, but this was Vince's adieu to the board, but directed specifically at me under my previous user name (Hookworm). He was boasting about being a free thinker but then went on about how the New World was filled with ignorant savages until Europeans came and brought light to their cavelike brains. The first paragraph was him quoting me calling him on his bullshit. Unfortunately the board's server melted down not long after that, so we've lost all his wonderful contributions, but someone (Ratty would be a good bet) rescued that last post via Google's automatic archiving system.

I'm a new member - but I'm assuming the post in question came from the Vince? Wow. I'm sure glad Bernie decided to add him to the band...

People with a better memory can correct me on any erroneous details, but this was Vince's adieu to the board, but directed specifically at me under my previous user name (Hookworm). He was boasting about being a free thinker but then went on about how the New World was filled with ignorant savages until Europeans came and brought light to their cavelike brains. The first paragraph was him quoting me calling him on his bullshit. Unfortunately the board's server melted down not long after that, so we've lost all his wonderful contributions, but someone (Ratty would be a good bet) rescued that last post via Google's automatic archiving system.

It truly was a turning point in our collective history. Our innocence was lost that day, almost as lost as your throat could have been.

I'm a new member - but I'm assuming the post in question came from the Vince? Wow. I'm sure glad Bernie decided to add him to the band...

People with a better memory can correct me on any erroneous details, but this was Vince's adieu to the board, but directed specifically at me under my previous user name (Hookworm). He was boasting about being a free thinker but then went on about how the New World was filled with ignorant savages until Europeans came and brought light to their cavelike brains. The first paragraph was him quoting me calling him on his bullshit. Unfortunately the board's server melted down not long after that, so we've lost all his wonderful contributions, but someone (Ratty would be a good bet) rescued that last post via Google's automatic archiving system.

It truly was a turning point in our collective history. Our innocence was lost that day, almost as lost as your throat could have been.

And within two years, Inder was committing more and more troops to Vietnam.

I'm a new member - but I'm assuming the post in question came from the Vince? Wow. I'm sure glad Bernie decided to add him to the band...

People with a better memory can correct me on any erroneous details, but this was Vince's adieu to the board, but directed specifically at me under my previous user name (Hookworm). He was boasting about being a free thinker but then went on about how the New World was filled with ignorant savages until Europeans came and brought light to their cavelike brains. The first paragraph was him quoting me calling him on his bullshit. Unfortunately the board's server melted down not long after that, so we've lost all his wonderful contributions, but someone (Ratty would be a good bet) rescued that last post via Google's automatic archiving system.

It truly was a turning point in our collective history. Our innocence was lost that day, almost as lost as your throat could have been.

And within two years, Inder was committing more and more troops to Vietnam.

I'm a new member - but I'm assuming the post in question came from the Vince? Wow. I'm sure glad Bernie decided to add him to the band...

People with a better memory can correct me on any erroneous details, but this was Vince's adieu to the board, but directed specifically at me under my previous user name (Hookworm). He was boasting about being a free thinker but then went on about how the New World was filled with ignorant savages until Europeans came and brought light to their cavelike brains. The first paragraph was him quoting me calling him on his bullshit. Unfortunately the board's server melted down not long after that, so we've lost all his wonderful contributions, but someone (Ratty would be a good bet) rescued that last post via Google's automatic archiving system.

It truly was a turning point in our collective history. Our innocence was lost that day, almost as lost as your throat could have been.

And within two years, Inder was committing more and more troops to Vietnam.